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1.6.3. MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) MLD is used by IPv6 systems (listeners and routers) to report their IP multicast addresses memberships to any neighboring multicast routers. The implementation of MLD v2 is backward compatible with MLD v1. MLD protocol enables the IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners, the nodes that want to receive the multicast data packets, on its directly attached interfaces. The protocol specifically discovers which multicast addresses are of interest to its neighboring nodes and provides this information to the multicast routing protocol that make the decision on the flow of the multicast data packets. 1.7. Data Center Features 1.7.1. Priority-Based Flow Control The Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) feature allows the user to pause or inhibit transmission of individual priorities within a single physical link. By configuring PFC to pause a congested priority (priorities) independently, protocols that are highly loss sensitive can share the same link with traffic that has different loss tolerances. Priorities are differentiated by the priority field of the 802.1Q VLAN header. An interface that is configured for PFC is automatically disabled for 802.3x flow control. 1.7.2. Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol The Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX) is used by data center bridge devices to exchange configuration information with directly-connected peers. The protocol is also used to detect misconfiguration of the peer DCBX devices and optionally, for configuration of peer DCBX devices. 1.7.3. CoS Queuing and Enhanced Transmission Selection The CoS Queuing feature allows the switch administrator to directly configure certain aspects of the device hardware queuing to provide the desired QoS behavior for different types of network traffic. The priority of a packet arriving at an interface can be used to steer the packet to the appropriate outbound CoS queue through a mapping table. CoS queue characteristics such as minimum guaranteed bandwidth, transmission rate shaping, etc. are user configurable at the queue (or port) level. Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) allows Class of Service (CoS) configuration settings to be advertised to other devices in a data center network through DCBX ETS TLVs. CoS information is exchanged with peer DCBX devices using ETS TLVs. 1.7.4. VXLAN Gateway Logically segregated virtual networks in a data center are sometimes referred to as data center VPNs. The VXLAN Gateway is a solution that allows VXLAN to communicate with another network, particularly a VLAN. It offers VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) functionality for VXLAN tunnels on the switch. NETGEAR M4500 Series Switches Software Administration Manual 30

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1.6.3.
MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810)
MLD is used by IPv6 systems (listeners and routers) to report their IP multicast addresses memberships to
any neighboring multicast routers. The implementation of MLD v2 is backward compatible with MLD v1.
MLD protocol enables the IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners, the nodes that want to
receive the multicast data packets, on its directly attached interfaces. The protocol specifically discovers
which multicast addresses are of interest to its neighboring nodes and provides this information to the
multicast routing protocol that make the decision on the flow of the multicast data packets.
1.7.
Data Center Features
1.7.1.
Priority-Based Flow Control
The Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) feature allows the user to pause or inhibit transmission of individual
priorities within a single physical link. By configuring PFC to pause a congested priority (priorities)
independently, protocols that are highly loss sensitive can share the same link with traffic that has different
loss tolerances. Priorities are differentiated by the priority field of the 802.1Q VLAN header.
An interface that is configured for PFC is automatically disabled for 802.3x flow control.
1.7.2.
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol
The Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX) is used by data center bridge devices to exchange
configuration information with directly-connected peers. The protocol is also used to detect misconfiguration
of the peer DCBX devices and optionally, for configuration of peer DCBX devices.
1.7.3.
CoS Queuing and Enhanced Transmission Selection
The CoS Queuing feature allows the switch administrator to directly configure certain aspects of the device
hardware queuing to provide the desired QoS behavior for different types of network traffic. The priority of a
packet arriving at an interface can be used to steer the packet to the appropriate outbound CoS queue
through a mapping table. CoS queue characteristics such as minimum guaranteed bandwidth, transmission
rate shaping, etc. are user configurable at the queue (or port) level.
Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) allows Class of Service (CoS) configuration settings to be advertised to
other devices in a data center network through DCBX ETS TLVs. CoS information is exchanged with peer DCBX
devices using ETS TLVs.
1.7.4.
VXLAN Gateway
Logically segregated virtual networks in a data center are sometimes referred to as data center VPNs. The
VXLAN Gateway is a solution that allows VXLAN to communicate with another network, particularly a VLAN.
It offers VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) functionality for VXLAN tunnels on the switch.